Navy Seal recovery team, first to grab the Apollo 11 capsule and attach anchor cables and a flotation device before the astronauts emerged. Later served in Vietnam, battled addictions, and became a preacher
(1937-1994) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. He died from a heart attack in 1994. The asteroid 8450 Egorov is named in his honor
(born July 13, 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10
NASA/MIT/Draper: Software Engineer starting with Apollo 8 (incl. Apollo 11); co-wrote the software for the command module program turning the engines on and off
Engineer on the Voyager mission since the day it launched: September 5, 1977. He works on Voyager's flight data systems, which have just 64 kilobytes of memory (0.000064 gigabytes) and run a long-since retired computer language
Scientist; MIT; NASA. Principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission (2011-2012); other planetary mission participation: NASA LRO, MRO, Dawn, NEAR, Mars Global Surveyor